2 ms·
If you read the Innovators Dillemma, there is a very clear chapter about how new technologies don't really deliver their promises immediately; but as they're ad
by pm90 8y ago
If you read the Innovators Dillemma, there is a very clear chapter about how new technologies don't really deliver their promises immediately; but as they're adopted and operators/users learn how to work with it, that's when productivity changes are very much visible. It took quite some time for AWS to be mainstream and then to be adopted and operated in a way that delivered high productivity gains, and it seems to be the same for k8s right now.
- zaphirplane 8y agoI really wonder about the causality of that, is it changing things to adapt the new technology makes you clean up / refresh / fix known issues along the way or is it the new technology itself causes less issues down the track
- pm90 8y agoThat doesn't really make sense. If you're moving to a new technology, even if you clean up/refresh/ fix known issues along the way, you are likely to accumulate similar such issues in the new technology as well, which would lead to a decrease in productivity. But that has never really been observed. While I agree that the cleanup can inevitably lead to productivity gains, I believe they are overshadowed by the productivity gains from the actual change that is being made.
- tannhaeuser 8y agoThat only makes sense when seen as an obstacle to initial adoption from an innovators and sales point of view and could be said just about every innovation. But obviously not every IT innovation makes it.